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ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

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[PDF file]: […] 1 aircraft (Airborne Warning and Control System), RAF Kinloss closed.1 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, other military systems, such as the Bloodhound surface to air missile, disappeared along with their bases. The military footprint in the UK shrank in what perhaps some would call the ‘peace dividend’ and others would describe as […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

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[PDF file]: Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell Garrick Alder In response to an inquiry made by one of the twelve NASA astronauts to have walked on the Moon, the CIA prevented a future CIA Deputy Director from revealing the truth about the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’. The truth about the supposed crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] left by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.24 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to shoot down […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

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[PDF file]: […] weapon. Because of the invisibility of malware it will be less accountable and, as we’ve seen with NSO, it will be given special treatment politically. Unlike a missile, this is an area of production which is continually evolving, whose current status for obvious reasons must always be kept under wraps. It forms part of […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.2 3 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two 22 23 hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

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[PDF file]: From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996 Nigel Norman Kim Besly was a peace campaigner and a regular visitor to the women’s camp at Greenham Common in the 1980’s.1 She did not match the stereotype of the ‘Greenham woman’. She was in her late fifties when she went to Greenham and had little involvement in politics […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] retelling this strange story, is that most of the time spies don’t matter. (The obvious exception being Oleg Penkovsky who told the American just before the Cuban missile crisis how few intercontinental missiles the Soviets actually had. Thus the Americans knew the Soviets would back down when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were detected.’ 49 These ‘foreign bodies’ exactly accord with his medical records. Hess was twice wounded in the upper left arm. ’12.6.16 Wounded near Douaumont , artillery missile left hand and upper arm.’ ‘27.7.17 Wounded in the hills between Ojtoztal and Slanic (left upper arm). Remained with Unit.’50 Thomas missed both these arm wounds. […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]

Misc reviews

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[…] account of the Soviet-American contest (Britain entered the race but was swamped by the other two), first to acquire German rocket scientists and then to develop a missile, contains one chapter on a bit of dodgy business by an American on the committee deciding which of the rival bids should make the American missile, […]